With an introduction by Alexander Mc Call Smith One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. In 1970s London Edwin, Norman, Letty & Marcia work in the same office & suffer the same problem
- loneliness. Lovingly & with delightful humour, Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, &
- perhaps most keenly felt
- their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. Deliciously, blackly funny & full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym`s sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. A classic from one of Britain`s most loved & highly acclaimed novelists, its world is both extraordinary & familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.